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" When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him. "
Yair Lapid
Changes
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" Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves. "
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" Intellectuals know how to answer the question, 'What God do I believe in?' not only through the question of 'What God do I abhor?' Intellectuals can also answer the question of 'What flag do I wave?' without having to answer the question of 'What flag do I burn.' "
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" I studied math, and I was terrible at it. "
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" The State of Israel was not established so that the anti-Semites will disappear but, rather, so we can tell them to get lost. "
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" Jerusalem will remain under Israeli sovereignty and will not be divided. "
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" Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy. "
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" People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics. "
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" Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits. "
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" The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course. "
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Government
Think
" Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers. "
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" When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case. "
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" I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem. "
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" Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion. "
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Different
World
Opinion
" I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then. "
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New York
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" The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength. "
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